Talk:Skidoo, California

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Wouldn't it be more sensible to put all this information and this good image at Death Valley National Park, with a redirect there from Skidoo and Skidoo, California? Is there a Category: Ghost towns? Wetman 22:48, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The article says that when skidoo is used as the name of a snomobile it is always hyphenated. I am skeptical...

It is a brand of snowmobile. As a brand name, it's hyphenated. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 06:57, Jan. 26, 2006

I removed this text from the page: Tourists to the site of the town are sometimes visited in their campsites at night by a man wearing early 20th Century clothing and a bowler hat. He asks for directions out of town and then walks away. He appears to be the ghost of a local murderer who was lynched about 1905. seems to be non-verifiable, at least. Ry Jones 17:21, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I moved this to ghost town status. It it is totally uninhabited, no buildings left and has been that way for years.Asiaticus (talk) 10:03, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone verify actual additional informational about lynching?

In the mid-1960s when I was in high school, my father took me and one of my high school friends to Death Valley on three day weekends. In 1967, December 25, Christmas Day, was on a Monday, and our primary objective was to photograph what remained of the ghost town of Skidoo. I had already read several books about Death Valley, along with the greater Death Valley area of Searles Lake, Darwin, Panamint Valley and Panamint City (we visited Panamint City with its notable smelter chimney, which I photographed), and Rhyolite (in Nevada). Two Books I still recall the names of are "Loafing Along Death Valley Trails" (I don't recall the author), and the autobiographical "Odyssey of a Desert Prospector" by Herman W. Albert. About Skidoo, whoever was lynched, his remains were dug-up and hung over again the next day for a newspaper reporter to photograph, since the reporter hadn't been able to arrive in time for the first hanging. Linstrum (talk) 04:07, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]